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Nepal Runs Its Clocks 15 Minutes Off Even India, and a Sacred Mountain Is the Reason

Nepal Standard Time is UTC+5:45, one of only three 45-minute time zones on Earth, and the offset is set to the exact longitude of a peak Nepalis…

By Laxman Rawal · Sep 1, 2026

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Land in Kathmandu and set your phone to local time, and it will do something most travellers have never seen a clock do: it will jump forward not by a clean hour, and not even by the 30-minute nudge you might expect crossing into a neighbouring country, but…

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What this means for trekkers

What this means for you Book a connecting flight through Delhi, Doha or Bangkok and the 15-minute gap against India, or the wider gaps against Gulf and Southeast Asian hubs, is exactly the kind of thing that turns a comfortable two-hour layover into a sprint…

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